Slalom, Women
| Date | 26 February 1960 — 9:30 | |
|---|---|---|
| Status | Olympic | |
| Location | Little Papoose Peak, Squaw Valley, California | |
| Participants | 43 from 14 countries | |
| Format | Two runs, total time determined placement. | |
| Details | Gates: 53 Length: 480 m Start Altitude: 2080 m Vertical Drop: 186 m | |
Canadian Anne Heggtveit led the first run by 1.5 seconds over Austrian Marianne Jahn. When Heggtveit placed second in the second run, she had a dominating win by 3.3 seconds over American Betsy Snite, who won the second run after placing equal fourth in run one. Jahn did not finish the second run. Considered the best skier in the world from 1961-63, she won three medals and two golds at the 1962 World Championships, but in four Olympic events, was only able to finish once, placing 13th in the 1964 giant slalom. Still, her fate was better than that of Germany’s Barbi Henneberger, the bronze medalist. After the 1964 Winter Olympics, Henneberger and American Olympian Buddy Werner were filming a ski movie on Val Selin, near Sankt Moritz, when they were caught by an avalanche, killing both.
| Pos | Number | Competitor | NOC | Time | Run #1 | Run #2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | Anne Heggtveit |  CAN | 1:49.6 | 54.0 (1) | 55.6 (2) | Gold | ||
| 2 | 3 | Betsy Snite |  USA | 1:52.9 | 57.4 (=4) | 55.5 (1) | Silver | ||
| 3 | 20 | Barbi Henneberger |  GER | 1:56.6 | 57.4 (=4) | 59.2 (=6) | Bronze | ||
| 4 | 1 | Thérèse Leduc |  FRA | 1:57.4 | 59.2 (=16) | 58.2 (4) | |||
| =5 | 8 | Lilo Michel |  SUI | 1:58.0 | 58.8 (13) | 59.2 (=6) | |||
| =5 | 4 | Hilde Hofherr |  AUT | 1:58.0 | 59.0 (=14) | 59.0 (5) | |||
| 7 | 31 | Stalina Korzukhina |  URS | 1:58.4 | 58.5 (=9) | 59.9 (=12) | |||
| 8 | 5 | Sonja Sperl | GER | 1:58.8 | 59.0 (=14) | 59.8 (=10) | |||
| 9 | 14 | Renie Cox | USA | 1:59.2 | 59.4 (18) | 59.8 (=10) | |||
| 10 | 34 | Giuliana Chenal-Minuzzo |  ITA | 1:59.3 | 57.4 (=4) | 1:01.9 (19) | |||
| 11 | 19 | Marit Haraldsen |  NOR | 1:59.8 | 59.8 (19) | 1:00.0 (=14) | |||
| 12 | 27 | Nancy Holland | CAN | 2:01.1 | 1:01.6 (22) | 59.5 (9) | |||
| 13 | 18 | Anneliese Meggl | GER | 2:02.4 | 1:02.5 (25) | 59.9 (=12) | |||
| 14 | 11 | Inger Bjørnbakken | NOR | 2:02.5 | 57.3 (3) | 1:05.2 (27) | |||
| 15 | 22 | Carla Marchelli | ITA | 2:02.9 | 1:01.1 (21) | 1:01.8 (18) | |||
| 16 | 17 | Putzi Frandl | AUT | 2:03.0 | 59.2 (=16) | 1:03.8 (23) | |||
| 17 | 13 | Anne-Marie Leduc | FRA | 2:03.5 | 58.6 (=11) | 1:04.9 (26) | |||
| 18 | 36 | Yevgeniya Kabina | URS | 2:04.3 | 1:03.3 (26) | 1:01.0 (17) | |||
| 19 | 23 | Marguerite Leduc | FRA | 2:04.6 | 1:02.2 (23) | 1:02.4 (20) | |||
| 20 | 24 | Jerta Schir | ITA | 2:06.2 | 1:05.6 (30) | 1:00.6 (16) | |||
| 21 | 7 | Heidi Biebl | GER | 2:06.5 | 1:09.2 (35) | 57.3 (3) | |||
| 22 | 10 | Arlette Grosso | FRA | 2:06.8 | 1:07.5 (33) | 59.3 (8) | |||
| 23 | 45 | María Navarro |  ESP | 2:08.0 | 1:05.2 (28) | 1:02.8 (21) | |||
| 24 | 42 | Elizabeth Greene | CAN | 2:10.4 | 1:06.0 (32) | 1:04.4 (25) | |||
| 25 | 40 | María Cristina Schweizer |  ARG | 2:11.9 | 1:05.9 (31) | 1:06.0 (28) | |||
| 26 | 29 | Beverly Anderson | USA | 2:13.1 | 1:13.1 (=38) | 1:00.0 (=14) | |||
| 27 | 37 | Josephine Gibbs |  GBR | 2:13.2 | 1:04.1 (27) | 1:09.1 (31) | |||
| 28 | 9 | Madeleine Chamot-Berthod | SUI | 2:15.4 | 1:12.1 (37) | 1:03.3 (22) | |||
| 29 | 33 | Christine Davy |  AUS | 2:17.2 | 1:13.1 (=38) | 1:04.1 (24) | |||
| 30 | 35 | Lyubov Volkova | URS | 2:17.3 | 1:00.8 (20) | 1:16.5 (33) | |||
| 31 | 43 | Nancy Greene | CAN | 2:18.0 | 1:09.4 (36) | 1:08.6 (30) | |||
| 32 | 41 | Tish Prain |  NZL | 2:18.4 | 1:05.5 (29) | 1:12.9 (32) | |||
| 33 | 12 | Penny Pitou | USA | 2:19.8 | 58.5 (=9) | 1:21.3 (34) | |||
| 34 | 38 | Sue Holmes | GBR | 2:23.5 | 1:16.1 (40) | 1:07.4 (29) | |||
| 35 | 28 | Jolanda Schir | ITA | 2:28.1 | 1:02.3 (24) | 1:25.8 (36) | |||
| 36 | 16 | Astrid Sandvik | NOR | 2:29.4 | 58.1 (8) | 1:31.3 (38) | |||
| 37 | 44 | Wendy Farrington | GBR | 2:39.2 | 1:08.4 (34) | 1:30.8 (37) | |||
| 38 | 46 | Cecilia Womersley | NZL | 3:43.1 | 2:17.7 (41) | 1:25.4 (35) | |||
| 6 | Annemarie Waser | SUI | – | 57.6 (7) | – ( | ||||
| 30 | Yvonne Rüegg | SUI | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 32 | Liv Christiansen | NOR | – | – ( | – | ||||
| 15 | Marianne Jahn | AUT | – | 55.5 (2) | [1:04.9] ( | ||||
| 21 | Traudl Hecher | AUT | – | 58.6 (=11) | [1:04.8] ( |